04/20/2012

BBC Proms 2012

The full schedule for the 2012 BBC Proms was announced at the Proms annual press conference yesterday evening and a wide selection of works from the Schott catalogue have been programmed throughout the festival which runs from 13th July until 8th August 2012.  The First Night of the Proms on ...

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01/09/2012

Work of the Week - Alexander Goehr: When Adam Fell

To celebrate Alexander Goehr’s 80th birthday year, BBC Radio 3 have commissioned a new orchestral work which will be premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on 13th January 2012 at Barbican Hall in London. Oliver Knussen, to whom the work is dedicated, will conduct the work. When ...

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12/23/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2012 online

For Schott it is with particular pride that we look forward to the world’s celebrations of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013. In anticipation of this event, we have been busy adding to our Richard Wagner Complete Edition: new urtext-vocal scores based to the Complete Edition of The Flying Dutchman in ...

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09/21/2011

Ian Kemp tribute

We are very sad to learn of the death of our colleague and friend, Ian Kemp. Ian Kemp, musicologist and biographer, died on 16 September 2011. A graduate of Cambridge University, he was on the editorial staff of Schott Music in the early 60s before a distinguished academic career that took ...

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01/20/2011

Alexander Goehr - ultraschall 2011

British composer Alexander Goehr will have a day dedicated to his music at this year's Ultraschall Festival in Berlin.  The festival, which has taken place annually since 1999, will present two portrait concerts on the evening of Wednesday 26th January which will feature a cross section ...

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12/23/2010

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2011 online

CHORSINFONIK  p 3: Editorial · Contents  pp 4-6: World Premières: Krzysztof Penderecki: "Powiało na mnie morze snów..." · Robert Beaser: Ground "O" · Rodion Shchedrin: Double Concerto · Gavin Bryars: New full length ballet · Chaya Czernowin: The Quiet ...

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10/06/2010

Alexander Goehr - Promised End

Leading British composer Alexander Goehr’s fifth opera, Promised End , will receive its world premiere in London on 9th October at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre before embarking on a UK tour.  A meditation on Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by James Conway and presented by English ...

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07/16/2010

Tanglewood Presents US Premiere of Alexander Goehr's Since Brass, nor Stone... and Features Bernard Rands' “now again”-fragments from Sappho

This year Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music features the US Premiere of Alexander Goehr's Since Brass, nor Stone... on August 15. Having earned Goehr a British Composer Award, the work was praised by that panel of judges for its “fresh lyricism, lightness of touch and joy in melodic ...

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06/07/2010

Work of the Week - Alexander Goehr: TurmMusik / Tower Music

Throughout a distinguished career spanning nearly 60 years, Alexander Goehr has always been a leading figure in contemporary music, establishing an international reputation and winning numerous awards including a recent British Composer Award for his chamber work Since Brass nor Stone.  In ...

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04/27/2010

schott aktuell - the journal 3/2010 online

Love Songs Contents: p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-7: World Premieres: Chaya Czernowin: Lovesong · Jörg Widmann: Liebeslied · Wilfried Hiller: Cappella Sistina · Andrew Norman: The Companion Guide to Rome · Benjamin Schweitzer: Camaieu · Rodion Shchedrin: ...

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